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In response to
"PTI finally touched on something involving Miami's tanking that I've thought about a lot."
by
David
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Assuming the lawsuits were based on some type of fraud complaint, it would depend on who knew what and when.
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Committing fraud usually requires some level of knowledge. Innocent sharing of incorrect information isn't fraud, you have to know you're defrauding someone based on false information.
There are a bunch of legal nuances, though. Gamblers may not have standing to bring a lawsuit, and it would be pretty difficult to prove they suffered direct damages as a result of some instruction the higher ups gave to Flores. Gambling is -- by its very nature -- an enterprise based on risk and asymetric information. Betting odds are always based on incomplete information, so it would be a challenge to prove that a Dolphins loss was based on tanking and not some other cause like weather, injuries, player health, a coaching mistake, or anything else?
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